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Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886
Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886, Page 37
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35 properly used. This was quite an improvement on the more primeval methods. But the inventive genius of man was not yet satisfied, so a Horse=planter was invented by means of which one man & a boy the could be marked out one way, the seed dropped and covered and we might add rolled, at the same time. Still the good work went on, and by means of a "check-row" (a heavy wire chain with knuckles at proper intervals) one man may, with his now seemingly perfect apparatus, drop and cover the seed and have it in rows two ways - in
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35 properly used. This was quite an improvement on the more primeval methods. But the inventive genius of man was not yet satisfied, so a Horse=planter was invented by means of which one man & a boy the could be marked out one way, the seed dropped and covered and we might add rolled, at the same time. Still the good work went on, and by means of a "check-row" (a heavy wire chain with knuckles at proper intervals) one man may, with his now seemingly perfect apparatus, drop and cover the seed and have it in rows two ways - in
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